Coordinates: 10.38°N 78.

82°E

Pudukkottai
Pudukkottai is the administrative headquarters of Pudukkottai District in
the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is a big town located on the banks of Pudukkottai
Pudugai
River Vallaru,[1] it has been ruled, at different times, by the Cholas,
Thondaiman seemai,The New Fort
Mutharaiyars, Early Pandyas, Thondaimans, and the British. It is situated
about 395 kilometres (245 mi) southwest of the state capital Chennai and City
about 55 kilometres (34 mi) southeast of Tiruchirappalli. The people in the
city are employed majorly in teritiary sector activities. Tamil Nadu's first
women Asiad Santhi Soundarajan is from Pudukkottai.[2]

Being the district headquarters, Pudukkottai accommodates the district

administration offices, government educational institutes, colleges and
schools. Pudukkottai is a part of Pudukkottai constituency and elects its
member of legislative assembly every five years, and a part of the
Ramanathapuram,sivaganga,Tiruchirappalli karur constituencies that elects
its member of parliament. The city is administered by a selection-grade
The district court of Pudukkottai
municipality established in 1912 as per the Municipal Corporation Act.
The city covers an area of 21.25 km2 and had a population of 143745 in Nickname(s): Pudugai
2011. Roadways is the major mode of transport to the city, while it has also
got rail connectivity. The nearest airport is Tiruchirappalli International
Airport, located at a distance of 45 km from the city.

Contents
History
Geography Pudukkottai
Demographics
Municipal administration and politics
Transportation
Places of interest
Economy
Education and utility services Location in Tamil Nadu, India
Sports Coordinates: 10.38°N 78.82°E
See also
Country India
Notes State Tamil Nadu
References District Pudukkottai
Further reading Collector Sri.Uma Maheswari,
IAS
External links
Superintendent Dr. J. Loganathan,
of Police IPS
Government
History • Body Pudukottai
 The princely state of Municipality
Pudukottai was created by . Area
Raghunatha Kilavan Setupati • Total 21.25 km2
of Ramnad (1673–1708 A.D.) (8.20 sq mi)
married Kathali Nachiar, the Elevation 87.78 m (287.99 ft)
sister of Thondaiman. He Population (2011)
appointed his brother-in-law, • Total 143,745
Raghunatha Thondaiman, as a • Density 6,800/km2
chief of the district of (18,000/sq mi)
Pudukottai. Raghunatha Languages
Coin of the Roman emperor Thondaiman earlier had ruled • Official English, Tamil
Augustus from the Pudukottai Thirumayam. In appreciation
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
hoard (British Museum). of Raghunatha Thondaiman's
PIN 622001 - 622006
services, Raghunatha Kilavan
Telephone 04322
Setupati gave Pudukkottai as code
an honour for his services. In later centuries, the Thondaiman rulers, while Vehicle TN-55
nominally feudatories of the Ramnad state, often pursued an independent registration
foreign policy, a trend common in all parts of India at that time. After the Sex ratio 995 per 1000 males
death of Raghunatha Kilavan Setupati Raghunatha Thondaiman become ♂/♀
ruler of Pudukottai.[3] Website www.pudukkottai.co
.in (http://www.puduk
After becoming the ruler of Pudukottai, Thondaiman fought against the kottai.co.in)
Nayaks of Tanjore in support of the Nayaks of Madurai and conquered
Thirukkattupalli, a very important place. Then there was a direct clash between the Thondaimans of Pudukottai and the Nayaks,
rulers of Tanjore.[4] Thondaiman conquered the west of Thirukkattupalli. The next ruler, Raja Vijaya Reghunatha Raya
Thondaiman, helped the Arcot Nawab against Hyder Ali, the ruler of Mysore. He was also loyal to the British Government. After
some time, when Hyder Ali’s army tried to enter Pudukkottai, Thondaiman's army defeated them and drove Hyder’s army away.
Thondaiman captured Kilanilai and Aranthangi. He helped the British government against Tipu Sultan.

Pudukkotai finally came under formal British protection. This was arguably unavoidable, since the Thondaimans were much
menaced in that period by a resurgent Mysore, ruled by Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan. When Tipu Sultan sought to leverage the
power of the French against his British adversaries, Pudukkotai, in common with its neighbours, such as Thanjavur and
Travancore, found it expedient to ally with the British.[5]

Raja Rajagopala Thondaiman (1928–1948), the last and ninth in the line of Thondaiman rulers, was selected by the British
Government and was crowned when he was six years old. After Indian independence in 1947, the Pudukkottai Princely State was
amalgamated with the Indian Union on 3 April 1948 and became a division in Tiruchirappalli District. The long history of the
Thondaimans' rule came to an end.

Some of the major kings of the dynasty are Raghunatha Raya Tondaiman (1686–1730), Vijaya Raghunatha Raya Tondaiman,
(1730–1769), Raya Raghunatha Tondaiman (1769 – Dec 1789), Vijaya Raghunatha Tondaiman (Dec 1789 – 1 February 1807),
Vijaya Raghunatha Raya Tondaiman (1 February 1807 – June 1825), Raghunatha Tondaiman (June 1825 – 13 July 1839),
Ramachandra Tondaiman (13 July 1839 – 15 April 1886), Marthanda Bhairava Tondaiman (15 April 1886 – 28 May 1928) and
Rajagopala Tondaiman (28 October 1928 – 4 March 1948).

Pudukkottai became a princely state of British India under the political authority of Madras Presidency. The state had an area of
4663 Sq.miles and in 1901, a population of 380,000. The Rajas of Pudukkotai were entitled to a 17-gun salute. The last
Thondaiman raja of Pudukkottai acceded to newly-independent India in 1948, and the state became a division of Tiruchirappalli
district of Madras State. The state was reorganised twice in the succeeding decade, taking its present form in 1956; it was
 renamed Tamil Nadu in 1968. On 14 January
1974, the present Pudukkottai District was
formed from parts of Tiruchirappalli and
Thanjavur districts.[6]

Thondaiman King in his Durbar,
Pudukkottai, 1858.
The coat of arms of Pudukkottai
state
August, brings scanty rainfall. Bulk of the rainfall is received during the North East monsoon in the months of October,
November and December.[7] The municipality covers an area of 21.25 km2 (21,250,000 m2)[8][9][10]
Geography
Pudukkottai is located at 10.38°N 78.82°E in
the valley of river Vellar. The city has a semi-
arid climate with high temperatures
throughout the year, and relatively low
Revenue stamp issued by
rainfall. The city is located in Pudukkottai
the princely state of
district of the South Indian state, Tamil Nadu, Pudukkottai with a portrait
at a distance of 390 km (240 mi) from of Martanda Bhairava
Chennai. Pudukkottai has a plain terrain with Tondaiman
a few rocky hills intersped in the outskirts.
Urugumalai, Athimalai, Chennaimalai are the
hills that surround the city. The rivers that flow in Pudukkottai are Amaravathy,
Noyal, Bhavani, and Kaveri. There are no notable mineral resources available in and
around the city. Red loam and red sand are the types of soil found in the town.
Paddy, groundnuts, bananas and sugarcane are the major crops in the region.
Pudukkottai experiences hot and dry weather throughout the year. The temperature
ranges from a maximum of 39.7 °C (103.5 °F) to a minimum of 17.8 °C (64.0 °F).
Like the rest of the state, April to June are the hottest months and December to
January are the coldest. Pudukkottai receives an average of 978.8 mm (38.54 in) of
rainfall yearly. The South west monsoon, with an onset in June and lasting up to

Demographics
Religious census Historical population
Religion Percent(%)
Hindu 88.28% Year Pop. ±%
Muslim 5.86% 1961 50,428 —
Christian 6.13% 1971 66,384 +31.6%
Sikh 0.02% 1981 87,952 +32.5%
Other 0.26% 1991 99,058 +12.6%
No religion 0.26% 2001 109,217 +10.3%
2011 143,745 +31.6%
According to 2016 census, Pudukkottai had a population of 1,618,345 with a sex- Sources:
ratio of 1,015 females for every 1,000 males.[13] A total of 960 were under the
1901 – 2001[11]
age of six. The average literacy of the town was 77.19%.[13] The town had a total
2011[12]
of 180 households. There were a total of 1,618,345 workers, comprising 192,462
cultivators, 234,344 main agricultural labourers, 10,170 in house hold industries,
203,272 other workers,[13] 121,445 marginal workers, 128 marginal cultivators, 47 marginal agricultural labourers, 144 marginal
workers in household industries and 3,974 other marginal workers.[12] As of 2001, 20 slums were identified in the town and
approximately 37,740 people resided in the slums. The population of the town decreased during the 1991–2001 period is
attributed to the migration to other cities in search of employment and lesser job opportunities in the town.[11] The city covers an
area of 21.25 square kilometres (8.20 sq mi).

As per the religious census of 2016, Pudukkottai had 88.28% Hindus, 5.86% Muslims, 6.13% Christians, 0.02% Sikhs and
Buddhists, 0.12% Jain, 0.01% following other religions and 0.26% following no religion or did not indicate any religious
preference.[13]

The Thondaiman king, Vijaya Raghunatha rebuilt the town based on the principles of town planning so that the main streets were
laid intersecting at right angles with the palace at the centre.[9] Out of the total area, 80.85% of the land is marked developed and
19.15% of the city remains undeveloped. Residential areas make up 60.1% of the town's total area while commercial enterprises
and industrial units make up 4.43% and 1.47% respectively.[14] The population density is not uniform throughout the town. It is
high in the centre and lower in the peripheral areas such as Sivagandapuram, Ganesh nagar and the Tamil Nadu Housing Area.
The density ranges from 200-300 persons per hectare in the central part of the town and 16 - 55 persons per hectare (PPH) in the
peripheral areas with low density Hindus form the majority of the urban population, followed by Muslims and Christians. Tamil
is the main language spoken in the city, but the use of English is relatively common; English is the medium of instruction in most
educational institutions and offices in the service sector.[11]

Municipal administration and politics

Pudukottai is the headquarters of the Pudukkottai district. The town was Municipality officials
constituted as a third-grade municipality in 1912, promoted to first-grade during Chairman Rajasekaran[15]
1963 and selection-grade from 1998. The Pudukottai municipality has 42 wards J.
and there is an elected councillor for each of those wards.[20] The functions of the Commissioner
Subramanian[16]
municipality are devolved into six departments: general administration/personnel, S. Abdul
Vice-
Engineering, Revenue, Public Health, city planning and Information Technology Chairman Rahman[17]
(IT). All these departments are under the control of a Municipal Commissioner Elected members
who is the executive head.[21] The legislative powers are vested in a body of 42
Member of Periannan
members, one each from the 42 wards.[22] The legislative body is headed by an Legislative
elected Chairperson assisted by a Deputy Chairperson.[23]
Arasu[18]
Assembly
Member of [19]
Pudukottai is a part of the Pudukottai and it elects a member to the Tamil Nadu
Parliament P. Kumar
Legislative Assembly once every five years.[24] From the 1977 elections, All India
Anna Dravid Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) won the assembly seat three times (in 2001 and 2006 elections), two times by
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK, 1989 and 1996), four times by Indian National Congress (INC) (1977, 1984 and 1991
elections). The current MLA of Pudukottai constituency is Periyannan arasu from DMK party, who won the byelections after the
previous member expired on 1 April 2012.[25][26][27]

Pudukottai is a part of the Pudukkottai (Lok Sabha constituency) till the 2004 elections before delimitation in 2009 – it had the
following six assembly constituencies – Peravurani, Pudukkottai, Alangudi and Arantangi state assembly constituencies.[28] From
the 2009 elections, the town is a part of Tiruchirappalli constituency and the current Member of Parliament from the constituency
is P. Kumar from the ADMK party. From 1951, the Pudukottai parliament seat was held by the Indian National Congress for five
times (during 1957, 1980, 1984, 1989 and 1991 elections), ADMK for three times (during 1998, 1991, 1999 and 2009 elections),
Dravid Munnetra Kazhagam three times (during the 1971, 1996 and 2004 elections) and once each by KMPP (during 1951
elections), CPI (during 1962 elections) and CPM (during 1967 elections).[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41] The
current Member of Parliament from the constituency is P. Kumar from the ADMK party.[42]
Law and order in the city in maintained by the Pudukottai sub division of the Tamil Nadu Police headed by a Deputy
Superintendent. There are four police stations in the town, with one of them being an all women police station. There are special
units like prohibition enforcement, district crime, social justice and human rights, district crime records and special branch that
operate at the district level police division headed by a Superintendent of Police.[43]

Transportation
The Pudukkottai municipality maintains 122.84 km (76.33 mi) of roads. The city has 4.16 km (2.58 mi) concrete roads, 9.78 km
(6.08 mi) WBM roads, 6 km (3.7 mi) gravel roads, 2.5 km (1.6 mi) footpaths and 100.4 km (62.4 mi) bituminous road. A total of
19.908 km (12.370 mi) of state highways is maintained by the State Highways Department and national highways by the National
Highways Department.[44]

There are two national highways namely the NH 336 Trichy - Ramanathapuram road and NH 226 Perambalur - Manamadurai
road that pass via Pudukkottai. There are two state highways that pass via the town - SH 26 Trichy - Mimisal road and SH 71
Musiri - Sethubavachatram road. The other major district roads connect Pudukkottai to other parts of the district. The Pudukkottai
bus stand is a B-grade bus stand located in the centre of the town. The State Express Transport Corporation operates long distance
buses connecting the city to important cities like Chennai and Bengaluru. TNSTC Kumbakonam division operates frequent
intercity and intrastate buses to cities like Rayavaram, Tiruchchirapalli, Thanjavur, Madurai, Coimbatore, Aranthangi, Karaikudi,
Devakottai, Sivagangai, Pattukkottai, Ponnamaravathi, Rameswaram, Kodaikanal, Dindigul, Theni, Tiruppur, Karur, Palani,
Salem, Erode, Mettupalayam, Velankanni, Villupuram, Vellore, Tiruvannamalai, Nagercoil, Tiruchendur and
Thoothukudi.[45][46]. KSRTC operates daily buses between Bengaluru and Pudukkottai.

Pudukkottai railway station has daily express trains to and from Chennai, Rameswaram and weekly express trains to Coimbatore,
Puducherry, Kanyakumari, Varanasi and Bhubaneshwar. The town has passenger train services to Trichy, Manamadurai,
Rameswaram and Karaikudi.[47][48]

The nearest local and international airport is the Tiruchirapalli International Airport, located 45 km from the town.

Places of interest
Brahadambal and Shiva Temple located in the main town.
Sri Vyakrapureeswarar Temple, Thiruvengaivasal, Pudukkottai district.
Sittannavaasal (Ancient drawings and Stone beds).
Government Museum (This is the second largest museum of Tamil Nadu).
Thirumayam Fort.
Avudayarkoil Athmanatha swamy temple.
Porpanaikkottai Temple.
Pudukulam (this is a large man made tank supporting the water needs of Pudukottai town)
Pudukottai palace - A sand casket with a mantra written by saint Sadasiva Brahmendra of 18th century is preserved. A grand
palace in Pudukkottai.

Economy
The SIPCOT Industrial Complex is located on Tiruchirappalli - Rameswaram National Highways (NH 210). This Industrial
complex is well connected by Road, Rail and Air. It was established in 1980. The allotment of land commenced in 1982 to
accommodate Engineering and General Industries. The total extent of complex area is 421.10 acres (1.7041 km2).
Pudukkottai district is predominantly an agricultural oriented district. Generally a
dry and hot climate prevails in this district and this district's agricultural production
depends mainly on the rainfall. The normal annual rainfall of Pudukkottai district is
922.8 mm. Out of which 52.2 mm is received in winter, 124.6 mm is received in hot
weather period, 351.9 mm is received during South West Monsoon and 394.1 mm is
received in North East Monsoon. Recently Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
started Diploma college in agriculture at Kudimiyanmalai with a strength of
approximately 50 students including girls.
A Paddy field in Regunathapuram
There are 5,451 irrigation tanks available in this district, of which 172 tanks are Village of Pudukkottai district
system tanks fed by Grand Anaikat Channel and the remaining are rain fed tanks.
There are about 47,583 wells in the district catering an area of 100,993 Ha.[49]
Paddy is the major crop of this district. 90000 Ha. of area is covered under paddy, out of which 135000 Ha. of area is fed with
Kaveri Mettur Project through G.A. canal. The remaining area is well and tank fed. The present productivity level is 4.985 Mt. of
Paddy /Ha.Other than Paddy, Groundnut is the major crop in this district which is mainly cultivated under rain fed condition.
Groundnut is being cultivated in 36000 Ha. as rain fed crop and 8000 Ha. under irrigated condition. Millet, pulse, cotton,
sugarcane, gingelly are the other crops cultivated in this district.

Education and utility services

As of 2011, there were 33 schools in Pudukkottai: nine primary schools, seven middle schools and 17 high and higher secondary
schools. There were three arts and science colleges, namely, H.H.The Rajah’s College for men, Govt. Arts college for Women and
Govt. College of Education. There were five industrial training institute ITI in the town, namely, DIET, Govt. Industrial Technical
Institute, Advanced I.T.I., Central ITI, Little flower ITI and SriBrahathambal ITI.[50]

Electricity supply to Pudukkottai is regulated and distributed by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB). A Chief Distribution
engineer is stationed at the regional headquarters.[51] Water supply is provided by the Pudukkottai Municipality from the Cauvery
river through Jeyapuram head water works located 86 km (53 mi) away and Ammaiyappatti water works located 9.06 km
(5.63 mi). In the period 2000–2001, a total of 7 million litres of water was supplied everyday for households in the town.[52] As
per the municipal data for 2011, about 30-35 metric tonnes of solid waste were collected from Pudukkottai every day by door-to-
door collection and subsequently the source segregation and dumping was carried out by the sanitary department of the
Pudukkottai municipality. The coverage of solid waste management in the town by the municipality had an efficiency of 100% as
of 2001.[53] There is no underground drainage system in the town and the sewerage system for disposal of sullage is through
septic tanks, open drains and public conveniences.[54]

The municipality maintained a total of 191 km (119 mi) of storm water drains in 2011: 55 km (34 mi) pucca drains and 136 km
(85 mi) open drains.[55] As of 2011, there were a total of 31 hospitals, municipal dispensary, private dispensaries and private
general clinics and five clinical labls that take care of the health care needs of the citizens.[56] As of 2011, the municipality
maintained a total of 4,039 street lamps: 631 sodium lamps, 3,450 tube lights and one high mast beam lamp.[57] The municipality
operates one weekly market, two daily vegetable markets and one daily fish market that cater to the needs of the town and the
rural areas around it.[58]

Sports
There is a very famous sports club in Pudukottai which is called Kavinadu Sports Club. This club trains young talented athletes
who are doing really good in District, State, Country and even World level sports. Two main long distance runners that India has
at the moment (2017) are Miss. Surya and Mr. Lakshmanan who have been trained in this club. Lakshmanan received gold
medals for both 5,000 and 10,000 metres running in Asian Athletic championship, 2017. He is the first person from India to win
two gold medals in Asian Athletic championship. He also took part in world championships in London, 2017 and finished the
5,000 metres heat with a personal best of 13:35.69 minutes.

See also
Chola Nadu
Pattathurani

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Further reading
Edward Duyker & Coralie Younger,Molly and the Rajah: Race, Romance and the Raj, Australian Mauritian Press,
Sylvania, 1991, pp. xii, 130, ISBN 0-646-03679-3

External links
Pudukkottai Colonial Postal Covers (http://omstamps.com/index.php?route=product/search&search=Pudukkottai)
Pudukkottai District web site (http://pudukkottai.nic.in/)

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